Impact of the Scientific Revolution on Astronomy

  • Jan 1, 1543

    Copernicus Theory

    Copernicus Theory
    in 1543 an astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus was published. It showed his theory that all planets including earth revole around the sun, and that the center of the universe is near the sun. Lastly his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium was also published.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1543 to

    THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

  • Pierre-Simon Laplace Hypothesis

    Pierre-Simon Laplace Hypothesis
    A french astronomer named Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes his nebular hypothesis, saying that the planets formed from a mass of incandescent gas.
  • Percival Lowell Prediction

    Percival Lowell Prediction
    Percival Lowell predicts their is a unknown planetin our solar system, and this is almost exactly where Pluto is discovered 25 years later.
  • Edwin Hubble Discovery

    Edwin Hubble Discovery
    A US astronomer named Edwin Hubble finds that the nebula Andromeda is very far away from all the other stars in our solar system and that this can only mean it must be in a separate galaxy.
  • New Galaxy

    New Galaxy
    A number of eight spaceman travel through the universe and find a whole new galaxy just like ours which is liviable for humans, execpt all the plants have purple soil, and their sun is green and white, and their stars are red.